Press Release
CORESTREET PRODUCTS AVAILABLE THROUGH GSA SIN 132-62
All FIPS 201 Approved CoreStreet Products Are Now Listed
Cambridge, Mass. — August 23, 2006 — CoreStreet, the leader in infrastructure and applications for smart credential and convergence programs, announced today that its products are now available through the US General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 Special Item Number (SIN) 132-62.
Those products listed under SIN 132-62 include CoreStreet's patented Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) approved Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) products: the Common Criteria certified CoreStreet Validation Authority; the Path Builder System; and the Responder Appliance 2400. These and other CoreStreet software products are designed to ensure the validity of smart credentials and their bearers anywhere in the world, for deployments of any size.
“Our goal at CoreStreet is to develop products that are not only open standards compliant, but also compliant with critical government initiatives,” said , president of CoreStreet. “We strive to help government organizations meet their HSPD-12 needs. Having our products available on SIN 132-62 does just that.”
The SIN 132-62 was established for products and services that enable organizations to implement the requirements of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) and FIPS 201. The goal of the Directive is the creation of a single, government-wide credential, which can be used to access both physical and logical resources. All federal agencies must be compliant by October 27, 2006.
Around the world, public and private organizations have deployed CoreStreet software to provide certificate validation for smart credential programs. One such example is the US Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) Program, which runs the CoreStreet Validation Authority and related products as part of the CAC infrastructure.About CoreStreet
Every day, the world’s most demanding government and commercial enterprises rely on CoreStreet technology to authorize critical events ranging from signed communications and transactions to physical access. More information, including technical whitepapers, industry solution studies and a list of the patents awarded to the company is available at www.corestreet.com.
